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2022 talks
October 21, 2022, Cambridge, MA.
Invited speaker: “ML and Earth Observation Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Conservation,” Workshop on AI-Assisted Decision-Making for Conservation, Center for Research on Computation and Society, Harvard University.
October 13-16, 2022, Shenzhen, China.
Keynote speaker: "Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning: A New Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery and Addressing Global Environmental Challenges," 2022 IEEE Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA).
September 29, 2022, virtual.
Distinguished speaker: "Big Data in Climate and Earth Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities for Data Science," IIT Roorkee.
August 18, 2022, Washington, DC.
Invited Speaker: "Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning (KGML): A New Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery," USACM Uncertainty Quantification for Machine Learning Integrated Physics Modeling (UQ-MLIP).
August 15, 2022, Washington, DC.
Keynote speaker: "Big Data in Climate and Earth Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities for Machine Learning," KDD2022 Humanitarian Mapping Workshop.
July 25, 2022, Vienna, Austria.
Keynote Speaker: "Big Data in Climate and Earth Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities for Data Science," IJCAI 2022 Workshop on Complex Data Challenges in Earth Observation (CDCEO).
July 18, 2022, virtual.
Keynote speaker: "Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning: A New Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery," AI4Science Summer School, Beijing.
May 19, 2022, State College, PA.
Plenary Talk: "Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning: A New Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery," HydroML, Penn State.
April 29, 2022, virtual.
Invited speaker: "Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning: A New Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery," SDM Minisymposium on 'Research Issues on Bridging Machine Learning and Simulation' (RIBMLS).
April 26, 2022, Oak Ridge, TN.
Keynote speaker: "Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning: A New Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery," AIRES 3, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Workshop report.
April 4, 2022, virtual.
Distinguished speaker: "Big Data in Climate and Earth Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities for Data Science," Cankaya University 25th Anniversary Celebration, Ankara, Turkey.
March 23, 2022, virtual.
Invited speaker: "Big Data in Climate and Earth Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities for Data Science," NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC).
February 24, 2022, virtual.
Keynote speaker: "Big Data in Climate and Earth Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities for Data Science," Interdisciplinary Research in Technology and Management" New Delhi, India.
2021 talks
August 15, 2021, virtual.
Keynote speaker: "Big Data in Climate and Earth Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities for Data Science," Fragile Earth 2021, Virtual Conference via KDD2021.
March 9, 2021, Minneapolis, MN.
Speaker: "Physics Guided Machine Learning: A New Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery," DSMMA Journal Club Seminar Talk, University of Minnesota.
March 3, 2021, Newark, NJ.
Speaker: "Big Data in Climate and Earth Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities for Data Science," NJIT Data Science Seminar Series, and Ying Wu College of Computing Distinguished Speaker, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
February 23, 2021, Atlanta, GA.
Speaker: "Physics Guided Machine Learning: A New Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery," PRedicting Emergence Of Virulent Entities By Novel Technologies (PREVENT) symposium, Georgia Tech.
January 11, 2021, Irvine, CA.
Speaker: "Physics Guided Machine Learning: A New Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery," Data Science Working Group Webinar Series, US Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR).
2020 talks
December 9, 2020, Oak Ridge, TN.
Speaker: "Physics Guided Machine Learning: A New Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery," AI for Atoms: How to Machine Learn STEM, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
November 5, 2020, Medford, MA.
Speaker: "Physics Guided Machine Learning: A New Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery," Tufts T-TRIPODS Seminar Series, Tufts University.
October 7, 2020, Reading, UK.
Speaker: "Physics Guided Machine Learning: A New Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery," ECMWF-ESA Workshop on Machine Learning for Earth System Observation and Prediction, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
September 24, 2020, Ames, IA.
Speaker: "Physics Guided Machine Learning: A New Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery," TADS Seminar, Iowa State University.
August 18, 2020, Minneapolis, MN.
Speaker: "Knowledge Guided Machine Learning: Challenges and Opportunities," Workshop on Knowledge Guided Machine Learning (KGML), University of Minnesota.
August 3, 2020, Golden, CO.
Speaker: "Physics Guided Machine Learning: A New Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery," JISEA 10th Annual Meeting, Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis.
April 23, 2020, Dallas, TX.
Keynote speaker: "Big Data in Climate and Earth Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities for Data Science," 36th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, University of Texas.
February 20, 2020, Berlin, Germany.
Invited speaker: "Big data in geosciences: opportunities and challenges for machine learning," First international conference of big data and machine learning in geosciences, The Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (Germany).
February 18, 2020, Doha, Qatar.
Invited speaker: Qatar Computing Research Institute.
January 30, 2020, Gainesville, FL.
Invited speaker: "Physics Guided Machine Learning: A New Paradigm for Modeling Dynamical Systems," InfoTech Speaker Series, University of Florida.
2019 talks
December 2, 2019, Chicago, IL.
Keynote speaker: "Big Data in Climate and Environmental Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities for Data Science," AI and Environment workshop, University of Illinois at Chicago.
October, 2019, Paris, France.
Invited lecturer: "Big Data in Climate and Earth Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities for Data Science," PRAIRIE AI Summer School, PAISS.
October 11, 2019, Gainesville, FL.
Keynote speaker: "Big Data in Climate and Earth Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities for Data Science," UF Informatics Institute Symposium, University of Florida.
August 21, 2019, Lima, Peru.
Keynote speaker: "Big Data in Climate and Earth Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities for Data Science," International Conference on Information Management and Big Data (SIMBig).
July 29, 2019, Provo, UT.
Speaker: "Physics Guided Machine Learning: A New Paradigm for Modeling Dynamical Systems," 2019 Conference on Hydroinformatics, Brigham Young University.
July 10, 2019, Golden, CO.
Speaker: "Physics Guided Machine Learning: A New Paradigm for Modeling Dynamical Systems," Data-Driven Forecasting and Prediction for Energy Systems Workshop, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
June 5, 2019, Oak Ridge, TN.
Speaker: Computer Science and Mathematics Division (CSMD) Distinguished Lecture, "Physics Guided Machine Learning: A New Paradigm for Modeling Dynamical Systems," Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
May 30, 2019, Minneapolis, MN.
Speaker: "Machine Learning and Big Data for Agriculture," International Agroinformatics Alliance, University of Minnesota.
May 17, 2019, Washington, DC.
Machine Vision Panelist: USAID Advisory Panel, Big Data and Machine Learning for Development workshop.
May 3, 2019, Minneapolis, MN (Cyber Seminar).
Speaker (co-delivered with Jordan Read, USGS): "Process-guided deep learning: Improving water resource predictions with advanced hybrid models," Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI) 2019 Spring Seminar Series.
March 26, 2019, Minneapolis, MN.
Speaker: "Physics Guided Machine Learning: A New Paradigm for Modeling Dynamical Systems," CESTA Seminar Series, University of Minnesota.
March 15, 2019, New York, NY.
Speaker: "Physics Guided Machine Learning: A New Paradigm for Modeling Dynamical Systems," Earth and Environment Engineering Seminar Series, Columbia University.
February 23, 2019, Riverside, CA.
Distinguished speaker, Computer Science Department, University of California, Riverside.
February 8, 2019, Los Angeles, CA.
Keynote Talk: "Understanding Global Change: Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning," Symposium on AI for Conservation, University of Southern California.
January 8, 2019, Phoenix, AZ.
Panelist: "Physics guided ML: Emerging AI opportunities for weather and climate," 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences, American Meteorological Society 99th Annual Meeting.
2018 talks
December 3, West Lafayette, IN
Distinguished speaker: "Big Data in Climate and Earth Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities for Data Science," Integrative Data Science Initiative, Purdue University.
October 12, 2018, Park City, UT.
Keynote Talk, Data Science Leadership Summit, Park City, Utah.
September 19, 2019, Fort Collins, CO.
Distinguished lecture, Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University.
July 30, 2018, Vancouver, Canada
Invited plenary speaker: "Remote sensing and machine learning for natural and agricultural landscapes," Plenary 2: Agricultural technology — the data revolution, 30th International Conference of Agricultural Economists.
April 27, 2018, Ithaca, NY.
Invited seminar presenter: "Big Data in Climate: Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning," Computational Sustainability Virtual Seminar Series.
March 1, 2018, Atlanta, GA.
Speaker: CSE Distinguished Lecture Series, "Big Data in Climate: Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning," Georgia Tech.
February 17, 2018, Austin, Texas.
Speaker: "Using Machine Learning to Monitor Global Surface Water Dynamics With Remote Sensing," AAAS Annual Meeting Session Finding Water Management Solutions With Artificial Intelligence.
January 25, 2018, Los Angeles, CA.
Speaker: "Big Data in Climate and Earth Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities for Machine Learning," Jon Postel Distinguished lecture, UCLA.
January 19, 2018, Minneapolis, MN.
Speaker: Inaugural Headwaters Lecture at the Water Resources Assembly and Research Symposium, University of Minnesota.
2017 talks
August 29, 2017, Mountainview, CA.
Keynote speaker: "Big Data in Climate: Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning," at the NASA Ames Machine Learning Workshop.
August 21, 2017, Research Triangle Park, NC.
Lead speaker: "Big Data in Climate: Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning," opening workshop of the year-long program at the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) on Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Climate and the Earth System (CLIM).
August 16, 2017, Halifax, Canada.
Invited speaker: "Big Data in Climate: Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning," Applied Data Science Track, KDD-2017: The 23rd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
June 1, 2017, San Diego, California.
Keynote speaker: Grand Challenge Lecture, 2017 Workshop on Big Data and the Earth Sciences, University of California San Diego.
April 24, 2017, Tokyo, Japan.
Keynote speaker: "Big Data in Climate: Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning," 1st cross-disciplinary Workshop on Computing Systems, Infrastructures, and Programming (xSIG).
April 14, 2017, Lansing, MI.
Speaker: "Big Data in Climate: Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning." CSE Distinguished Lecture Series in the Computer Science Department, Michigan State University.
January 30, 2017, College Station, TX.
Speaker: "Big Data in Climate: Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning". CSE Distinguished Lecture Series, Texas A & M University.
January 27, 2017, Ann Arbor, MI.
Speaker: "Big Data in Climate: Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning." MICDE Seminar, University of Michigan.
2016 talks
November 29, 2016, Eagan, MN.
Distinguished presenter: "Understanding Climate Change–A Data-Driven Approach." 2016 Invited Speaker Series, Thomson Reuters.
October 27, 2016, Tempe, AZ.
Speaker: "Understanding Climate Change–A Data-Driven Approach," CIDSE Distinguished Guest Lecture Series, Computer Science Department, Arizona State University.
July 26, 2016, Washington, DC.
Speaker, Open Data Ecosystem for the Neurosciences (ODEN 2016).
July 20, 2016, Pune, India.
Keynote speaker: "Understanding Global Change: A Data Driven Approach," 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.
July 12, 2016, New York, New York.
Speaker: "Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining From Big Data," Big Data Coursework for Computational Medicine (BDC4CM).
May 19, 2016, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Invited speaker: "Big Data in Climate: Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning and Data Mining," Sandia National Labs.
March 14, 2016, Pune, India.
Keynote speaker: "Understanding Global Change: Opportunities and Challenges for Data Driven Research," Third ACM IKDD Conference on Data Science 2016.
2015 talks
December 19, 2015, Hyderabad, India.
Keynote speaker: "Understanding Global Change–Opportunities and Challenges for Data Driven Research," Fifth International Conference on Fuzzy and Neural Computing (FANCCO 2015).
November 5, 2015, Toronto, Canada.
Speaker: "Understanding Global Change: Opportunities & Challenges for Data Driven Research," Distinguished Speaker Series, University of Toronto.
September 18, 2015, Rochester, Minnesota.
Speaker: "The Impact of Big Data on Health Science Research," at the Mayo Clinic: Delivery Science Summit 2015.
August 10, 2015, Sydney, Australia.
Keynote speaker: "Identifying Rare Class in Absence of True Labels: Application to Monitoring Forest Fires from Satellite data," ACM SIGKDD Workshop.
July 22, 2015, Sicily, Italy.
Plenary speaker: "Understanding Global Change - A Data Driven Approach," International Workshop on Machine learning, Optimization, and big Data.
2014 Talks
December 13, 2014, Shenzhen, China.
Keynote speaker: "Understanding Global Change: Opportunities and Challenges for Data Driven Research," International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM-2014).
November 14, 2014, Twin Cities, Minnesota.
Speaker: "Understanding Global Change from Data," Eighth Annual Borchert Lecture, UMN-Twin Cities campus.
September 8, 2014, Brest, France.
Keynote speaker: "Opportunities and Challenges in Mining Earth System Data," Ocean's Big Data Mining Workshop (OBIDAM '14).
May 15, 2014, Tainan, Taiwan.
Keynote speaker: "Understanding Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges for Data Driven Research," Eigteenth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-18).
April 26, 2014, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Keynote speaker: "Understanding Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges for Data Driven Research," SIAM Workshop on Optimization methods for Anomaly Detection (SDM '14).
April 4, 2014, Penn State University.
Invited speaker: "Understanding Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges for Data Driven Research," Department of Computer Science, Penn State University.
March 21, 2014, University of Florida.
Invited talk: "Understanding Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges for Data Driven Research," Department of Computer Science, University of Florida.
2013 Talks
December 9-13, 2013, San Francisco, CA.
Stefan Liess, Shyam Borian, and Vipin Kumar convened the Earth and Space Science Informatics Poster Session, "New Approaches for Pattern Recognition and Change Detection I" at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
December 9-13, 2013, San Francisco, CA.
Convener, with Stefan Liess and Shyam Borian: Earth and Space Science Informatics Session, "New Approaches for Pattern Recognition and Change Detection II," at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting.
October 23, 2013, George Mason Univesity.
Invited speaker: "Understanding Global Climate Change: A Data Driven Approach," Department of Computer Science, George Mason University.
April 15, 2013, Orange, California.
Invited speaker: "Understanding Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges for Data Driven Research," Interface Symposium 2013.
March 6, 2013, Stony Brook, NY.
Invited speaker: "Understanding Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges for Data Driven Research," Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic (TAOS) 2013.
February 14, 2013, Davis, California.
Invited speaker: "Understanding Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges for Data Driven Research," UC Davis Distinguished Lecturer Colloquia.
2012 Talks
December 3-7, 2012, San Francisco, California.
Convener, with James T. Randerson, Forrest M. Hoffman, and Atul Jain: Biogeosciences Poster Session, "New Mechanisms, Feedbacks, and Approaches for Improving Predictions of the Global Carbon Cycle in Earth System Models III," American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting.
December 3, 2012, San Francisco, California.
Invited speaker: "Climate Extremes and Impacts: Can Big Data Mining and Fusion Help Reduce Uncertainties?" American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting.
August 12, 2012, Beijing, China.
Speaker: Innovation Award lecture at the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
July 20, 2012, Moffett Field, California.
Speaker: "Data Mining for Global Change," 2012 Summer Short Course for Earth System Modeling and Supercomputing.
June 14, 2012, Durham, North Carolina.
Invited speaker: "Understanding Global Change from Data," ARO Big Data at Large Workshop.
2011 Talks
November 9, 2011, Boca Raton, Florida.
Keynote speaker: "Mining Scientific Data: Past, Present, and Future," IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence.
July 27, 2011, Tahoe City, CA.
Speaker: "Understanding Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges for Data Intensive Computational Science," Scientific Data and Analytics for Extreme Scale Computing Workshop, Center for Scalable Application Development Software.
June 21, 2011, Pasadena, California.
Invited speaker: NASA's annual Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF) in the special session on Revolutionary Information Systems Technology & the Impact on NASA Earth Science.
April 22, 2011, Buffalo, NY.
Invited keynote speaker: "Understanding Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges for Computer Science," Information and Computing Technology (ICT) Conference, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
March 25, 2011, Charlotte, NC.
Invited speaker: "Discovery of Patterns in Global Earth Science Data using Data Mining," Distinguished Lecture Series, College of Computing and Informatics, University of North Carolina-Charlotte.
March 2, 2011, Reno, Nevada.
Invited plenary speaker: "Discovery of Patterns in Global Earth Science Data using Data Mining," SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE11).
2010 Talks
December 19, 2010, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
Invited keynote speaker: "Monitoring of Changes in the Global Forest Cover Using Data Mining," 2010 International Conference on Electronic-Business Intelligence (ICEBI2010).
December 14, 2010, Sydney, Australia.
Invited keynote speaker: "Discovery of Patterns in Global Earth Science Data using Data Mining," ICDM Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining (SSTDM-10).
October 21, 2010, Boston, Massachusetts.
Invited speaker: Global Climate Monitoring Symposium, Draper Laboratory.
October 6, 2010, Mountain View, California.
Invited keynote speaker: "Monitoring of the Changes in the Global Forest Cover Using Data Mining," NASA's Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding (CIDU-2010).
June 21-24, 2010, Hyderabad, India.
Keynote speaker: "Discovery of Patterns in Global Earth Science Data using Data Mining," 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
June 14-15, 2010, Beijing, China.
Invited speaker: "Discovery of Patterns in Global Earth Science Data using Data Mining," US China Computer Science Leadership Summit.
April 29 - May 1, 2010, Columbus, Ohio.
Keynote speaker: "Mining Scientific Data: Past, Present, and Future," SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2010.
2009 and earlier
December 6-9, 2009, Miami, Florida.
Keynote speaker: "Mining Climate and Ecosystem Data: Challenges and Opportunities," IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2009).
October 1-3, 2009, Columbia.
Invited speaker: "Assessing Change in Global Forest Cover using Data Mining," Next Generation Data Mining Summit (NGDM 2009).
December 21, 2007, Goa, India.
Keynote speaker: "High Performance Data Mining: Applications for Discovery of Patterns in the Global Climate System," HiPC–International Conference on High Performance Computing.
June 5-7, 2006, Taichung, Taiwan.
Keynote speaker: "Data Mining for Sensor Networks–Opportunities and Challenges," IEEE International Conference in Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC 2006).
September 15-17, 2004, San Francisco.
Keynote speaker: "Parallel and Distributed Computing for Cyber Security," 17th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS-2004).
April 22-26, 2003, Nice, France.
Keynote speaker: "High Performance Data Mining," 17th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2003).
Nov 1-3, 2002.
Speaker: "Data Mining for Network Intrusion Detection," NSF Workshop on Next Generation Data Mining,
June 27, 2002.
Keynote speaker: "High Performance Data Mining," High Performance Computing for Computational Science, VECPAR 2002.
May 7, 2002.
Keynote speaker: "Discovery of Patterns in the Global Climate System using Data Mining," PAKDD.
May 6, 2002.
Keynote speaker: "Discovery of Indirect Association from Web Usage Data," PAKDD Workshop on Mining Data across Multiple Customer Touchpoints for CRM.
November 12, 2001.
Speaker: "Data Mining for Scientific and Engineering Applications," Tutorial at SC2001.
August 20, 2000.
Speaker: "High-Performance Data Mining," Tutorial at KDD-2000.